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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 17:09:51 -0400
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        "Peter Buckley" <peter DOT buckley AT cportcorp DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: RE: mounts in gnupro99r1p1
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/cygdrive is needed.  Check out the user guide for details:

http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#MOUNT

The rest are peculiar to your system.  If you don't want them, get 
rid of them.  If they're needed by something else you use, you'll know
soon enough! ;-)

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At 04:59 PM 7/18/2001, Cheuk Cheng wrote:
>Thanks.  What is /usr/local/bin pointing to?  How about /usr/local,
>/usr/cygnus and /cygdrive?  I am confused about what are they used for and
>what should they point to?  Are they needed in general or only for specific
>tools?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Peter Buckley [mailto:peter DOT buckley AT cportcorp DOT com]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 1:24 PM
>To: 'Cheuk Cheng'; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>Subject: RE: mounts in gnupro99r1p1
>
>
>Cygwin tools would be located in c:\cygwin\bin,
>if you install in the default location.
>Cygwin prepends
>
>/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin
>
>to your path, and the mounts
>would be-
>
>c:\cygwin\bin to /usr/bin
>c:\cygwin to /
>c:\cygwin\usr\sbin to /usr/sbin
>
>If you set your path system or user variable,
>you can use cygwin/gnupro from other shells
>than the bash shell. I have in my system PATH
>variable on NT-
>
>%the typical path%;C:\cygwin\bin
>
>so I can use cygwin from emacs and dos without
>opening a bash shell.
>You can enter whatever location your gnupro
>tools are, and your cygwin tools, without
>worrying about mount.
>
>HTH,
>Peter
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Cheuk Cheng [mailto:cheng AT powertv DOT com]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 4:16 PM
>To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>Subject: mounts in gnupro99r1p1
>
>
>I am new to GNU and am confused about how to set up device mounts in
>general.  I use the following with the Cygwin I recently get from the web.
>I also have gnupro99r1p1 installed under d:\cygnus\gnupro99-r1p1.  When I
>run the default gnupro.bat file created by the gnupro99r1p1 installer, it
>just opens a DOS window within Win2k.  Since the installer put certain
>command line tools like ls.exe, bash.exe, etc. under
>d:\cygnus\unsupported-99r1\H-i686-cygwin32\bin while other programs like
>gcc.exe are placed into d:\cygnus\gnupro-99r1p1\H-i686-cygwin32\bin.  As a
>result, entering ls after running bash.exe does not work.  My questions are
>what mounts/paths does Cygwin used to locate a tool?  Do I always need to
>mount /, /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /usr/local and /usr/cygnus?  What should they
>normally be set to (especially gnupro99r1p1 has two different directories
>for storing the tools)?
>
>d:\cygnus\latest\bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode)
>d:\cygnus\latest\lib on /usr/lib type user (binmode)
>d:\cygnus\latest on / type user (binmode)
>d:\cygnus\latest on /usr/local type user (textmode)
>d:\cygnus\latest on /usr/cygnus type user (binmode)
>c:\temps on /tmp type user (textmode)
>c: on /c type user (textmode)
>d: on /d type user (textmode)
>e: on /e type user (textmode)
>g: on /g type user (textmode)
>k: on /cygdrive/k type user (binmode,noumount)
>m: on /cygdrive/m type user (binmode,noumount)
>n: on /cygdrive/n type user (binmode,noumount)
>u: on /cygdrive/u type user (binmode,noumount)
>
>
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